Recent Entries in Mergers and Acquistions
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Afilias Acquires dotMobi
Afilias announced that it has acquired mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd., the sponsoring organization and registry operator for the .mobi top-level domain. Under terms of the private deal, Afilias Limited, an Irish Limited company, has acquired all of the issued...
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Opera Buys Ad Network AdMarvel
Opera Software announced that it has acquired AdMarvel, Inc. It will enable Opera to expand its portfolio of products and services to include ad monetization services for Opera branded mobile products. It's interesting to note that Symbian system phones have...
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Google Buys AdMob Mobile Ad Platform Analytics & Metrics
AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google for approximately $700 million. AdMob is a popular mobile advertising platform that also tracks usage and other analytic factors."The best part of all this is what's next. We are...
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Digby Buys Web App Store Commerce Movaya
Digby, the leading provider of mobile commerce solutions for retailers, announced the acquisition of Movaya Wireless, Inc., a Seattle, Washington-based mobile software company focused on building digital goods storefront applications for the iPhone, Android and mobile web platforms. Additionally, Movaya...
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AT&T Buys Mobile X-Platform Dev Plusmo
AT&T announced the acquisition Plusmo, Inc., a leading provider of cross-platform mobile application solutions.They claim Plusmo brings to AT&T an open standards technology that will simplify mobile application development, accelerate innovation and deliver a better application experience for consumers. Plusmo...
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Syniverse Buys VeriSign's Messaging Unit 4 $175 Million
Syniverse Technologies will acquire VeriSign, Inc.'s messaging business for $175 million, subject to working capital adjustments.The proposed acquisition will combine Syniverse's NEXTAdvanced Messaging Hub, the industry's first comprehensive enhanced messaging hub, and other NEXT messaging offerings with four of VeriSign's...
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RIM Torches BlackBerry Smartphones, Buys WebKit Developer Torch Mobile
There may be a much better BlackBerry browser experience coming to a BlackBerry near you. BlackBerry-maker RIM has acquired Torch Mobile.The Torch' team of developers will join RIM's global organization and will now be focused on utilizing their WebKit-based mobile...
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MySpace Really Likes iLike, & Like Totally Buys iLike
Here's how a Valley Girl would report this story, "Like you know, MySpace, like, really, really likes, iLike. Like totally for sure. So like, iLike helps you. like, find music that's like music you like. So MySpace buys like, iLike...
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Microsoft and Yahoo in Cahoots with Search Deal/Partnership
Microsoft and Yahoo finally got in the search business bed together, Microsoft will power Yahoo search while Yahoo also becomes the sales force for Microsoft's premium properties. Yahoo will continue to provide online destinations and web products.Micrsoft's Steve Ballmer noted...
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Sprint Buys Virgin Mobile USA for $483 Million
Sprint Nextel is buying Virgin Mobile USA, for a total equity value of approximately $483 million, which includes the value of Sprint's current 13.1% fully diluted ownership interest in Virgin Mobile USA. They believe that the acquisition will strengthen Sprint's...
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Nokia Buys Cellity for Better Contact Managment
Nokia acquired certain assets of cellity. cellity is a privately owned mobile software company which employs 14 people in Hamburg, Germany. Nokia will acquire the cellity team to strengthen its competencies in the area of social networking. cellity’s current service...
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RIM and Visto Patent Settlement Reached for $267.5 Million
Research In Motion Limited (RIM) maker of BlackBerry smartphones and Visto Corporation ("Visto") announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to settle all outstanding worldwide patent litigation between the companies.Visto was the first company to offer push email...
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Nuance Buys Jott for More Voice to Text Services
Nuance Communications acquired of Jott voice-to-text service provider. Jott currently offers a voicemail to text service, note via phone, sales applications, and an API for development. The combined Nuance and Jott teams plan to focus on several key voice-to-text initiatives:...
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Boku Gets Beaucoup Bucks and Mobilizes Payments
BOKU, Inc.announced its payments service for global consumers to make online purchases of digital and virtual goods with their mobile phones. The claim they are creating a new standard for the mobile, by bringing bank-grade mobile payments to the web....
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RIM Buys Dash Naviagtion: Will BlackBerry Have Traffic Probbing?
RIM has confirmed that it has bought Dash Navigation but hasn't revealed many details on the purchase.Dash's technology turns a personal navigation device (GPS) into a traffic reporting tool, also called a traffic probe. Last year, Dash made a device...
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Intel Buys Mobile Embedded Software Co.: Wind River
Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, a leading software vendor in embedded devices, and will become part of Intel’s strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and...
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Handmark Acquires FreeRange Communciations Mobile Publisher
Handmark will acquire FreeRange Communications. FreeRange Communications, offers a unique mobile publishing platform that enables media companies and content publishers around the world to create their own branded, always-on mobile applications. Some of FreeRange's key partnersinclude The Wall Street Journal,...
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BlackBerry Partners Found Invests in Neuralitc Systems
Data services analytics firm Neuralitic Systems, in Montreal announced that the Blackberry Partners Fund has invested $3 million for a stake in the firm. The latest funding brings the total investment in Neuralitic over the last four months to more...
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Sybase Acquires paybox
Sybase, has acquired paybox Solutions AG, mobile payment solutions provider.Sybase will now provide mobile operators, financial institutions and merchants with a full suite of mobile payment solutions. A privately held company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Raunheim, Germany,...
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Qualcomm Acquires AMD's Handheld Business
Qualcomm has acquired certain graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources that were formerly AMD’s handheld business. The acquisition is expect to enhance Qualcomm’s multimedia capabilities....
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Nokia Sells Security Appliances to Check Point Software
Nokia a has signed an agreement for Check Point Software Technologies to acquire Nokia's security appliance business. The two businesses have collaborated for over a decade to deliver industry-leading enterprise security solutions, and this agreement is the natural culmination of...
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RIM Buys Chalk Media
Research In Motion maker of the BlackBerry Storm has acquired Chalk Media Corp. Chalk Media is a member of the BlackBerry ISV Alliance Program. Chalk developed Mobile Chalkboard, hat enables the creation and deployment of "Pushcasts" to BlackBerry smartphones. The...
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HTC Buys One & Company
HTC has bought design firm One & Company Design, Inc. One & Co will maintain its name and client base while it joins forces with HTC to create more hip and stylish phones. HTC and One & Co first began...
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Sierra Wireless and Wavecom Merger Announced
Sierra Wireless, Inc., provider of wireless modems for mobile computing, and Wavecom S.A., provider of embedded wireless technology for M2M (machine-to-machine) communication, announced that the companies have reached a Memorandum of Understanding providing for a business combination. "Sierra Wireless and...
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Sprint's Xohm and Clearwire Merger - Done Deal
Clearwire Corporation and Sprint announced today that they have completed the transaction to combine their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. Sprint contributed all of its 2.5 GHz spectrum and its WiMAX-related assets, including its XOHM business, to Clearwire. Clearwire has received...
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AT&T Buys Centennial Com for $944 Million
AT&T says that it will acquire regional carrier Centennial Communications for $944 Million in cash.It will add 1.1 million customers and coverage in rural parts of the Midwest, Southeast and Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico. It also business wireline services...
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Amdocs Buys Changing Worlds
Amdocs has entered into to an agreement to acquire Changing Worlds, a privately-held provider of personalization and intelligent portal solutions for mobile service providers. Amdocs has agreed to acquire all of ChangingWorlds' shares for $60 million in cash, net of...
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Jamba Mobile Content Now Fox Mobile Group (FMG)
Following News Corporation's new ownership of Jamba with its purchase of the 49 percent stake previously held by VeriSign, Jamba has announced a reorganization of its business. The business name has been changed to Fox Mobile Group, while the Jamba...
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FCC Decides on Alltel/Verizon Clearwire/Sprint 11/04
When the FCC meets on November 4, it is scheduled to vote on the proposed $28.1 billion Verizon Wireless-Alltel merger and the Sprint-Clearwire merger.If the Verizon/Alltel merger is approved, the merged company would become the nation's largest wireless carrier with 80...
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News Corp Buys VeriSign's Share in Jamba
News Corporation nd VeriSign, Inc. announced the sale of VeriSign's minority share of the mobile entertainment joint venture (Jamba) to News Corporation for approximately $200 million. The joint venture was created when News Corporation acquired controlling interest in VeriSign's wholly-owned...
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Nokia Buys OZ IM Service
OZ Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Nokia Corporation OZ is a leading mobile messaging provider of mobile IM and consumer email services. In April 2008, Wellington Financial provided a $10 million venture debt financing...
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Whoop Buys XOshpere
Whoop, Inc.wil acquire the assets of California-based mobile technology company, XOsphere, LLC and XOsphere's sister company in Latin America. As a hosted application, Whoop serves as a Web destination where subscribers can create media applications, Mobile Web sites and text...
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BestBuy Buys Napster
BestBuy announced that it will buy music sharing service Napster.Best Buy believes that Napster has one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use music offerings in the industry, including streaming music, music subscriptions, the ability to purchase individual tracks, albums and...
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Zed Acquires Mobitween Flash Publisher
Zed, announced the acquisition of Mobitween, a leading developer and publisher of Flash based content for mobile and online worlds. Mobitween brings to Zed an impressive know-how in Adobe Flash® technology for mobiles, an extensive product portfolio with more than...
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Helio Acquisition Final & Good for Biz, Says Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile USA announced that it has completed its acquisition of Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink,) The company believes that the acquisition complements Virgin Mobile USA's strengths. Dan Schulman, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Mobile USA,...
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Nuance New Strategy for Mobile Care includes Acquisition of SNAPin
Nuance Communications, Inc.announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held SNAPin, a provider of mobile device and server self-service technology. With the strengths and resources of Nuance and SNAPin, the combined organization can deliver innovative, highly scalable mobile customer care...
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Syncronica, Mobile Syncer, Buys Emailer Axis Mobile
Synchronica , mobile synchronization solutions, today announced that it is acquiring consumer mobile email specialist AxisMobile The AxisMobile acquisition aims to make Synchronica the leading player in mass market mobile email and synchronization middleware for mobile operators and service providers....
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Hands-On Mobile Invests in Connect 2 Media
Connect 2 Media, the recently created cross-platform games publisher has announced an investment from Hands-On Mobile, Inc ("Hands-On".) In return for a minority stake in the enlarged entity, Hands-On is injecting the bulk of its EMEA assets into Connect...
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Sony Buys Out Beretelsmann AG to Become Sony Music Entertainment SMEI
Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann AG today announced that Sony has agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. The music company, to be called Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SMEI), will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation...
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Forrester Research Buys JupiterResearch
Forrester Research announced the acquisition of JupiterResearch, LLC., and its parent company, JUPR Holdings, Inc., from MCG Capital Corporation for $23 JupiterResearch has 83 employees and 2007 revenues of approximately $14 million. Forrester, with 2007 revenues of $212 million,...
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Mobile Personalized RSS Aggregatot Mobispine Buys NewsAlloy
Mobispine an aggregator of news and content for the Mobile Internet has acquired NewsAlloy, web based feed reader. Mobispine and NewsAlloy are both leading innovators in the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) space will offer users a seamless product to...
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New Motion Inc. Buys Ringtone.com
New Motion, Inc., doing business as Atrinsic an Internet media and mobile entertainment company, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Ringtone.com, a popular mobile entertainment destination for downloadable mobile content and a highly valuable Internet domain which...
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SilverBirch Acquires Red Mile Ent.
SilverBirch Inc. a leading digital media company, today announced an agreement in principle to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Red Mile Entertainment, Inc., a California-based video game publisher with worldwide rights to established brands and intellectual properties including...
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Nokia Purchase of NAVTEQ Approved by European Commission
NAVTEQ, provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, announced today that Nokia has received unconditional approval from the European Commission for its planned acquisition of NAVTEQ. With this, Nokia now has received all approvals for the...
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Microsoft Acquires MobiComp Mobile Data Backup
Microsof announced it intends to acquire MobiComp, supplier of backup and restoration of mobile data and mobile posting of social content to websites such as Facebook. The acquisition would combine MobiComp’s expertise building imobile data protection and sharing services with...
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Verizon Buys Alltel for $5.9 Billion - Merger Emerges to Make Verizon #1
Verizon Wireless has entered into an agreement with Alltel Corporation and Atlantis Holdings LLC, to acquire Alltel Corporation in a cash merger. Verizon Wireless will acquire the equity of Alltel for approximately $5.9 billion. Based on Alltel's projected net debt...
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Motricity Smartphone and Direct2Consumer Biz Sold to PocketGear
Mobile content provider of infrastructure and services, Motricity, announced that it has sold its smartphone and direct-to-consumer businesses to an entity owned by Motricity co-founder, former board member and executive 27 year-old Jud Bowman. The new company will operate going...
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comScore Acquires M:Metrics
comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the acquisition of M:Metrics, Inc., the recognized leader in mobile measurement. The acquisition makes comScore the immediate leader in measuring the emerging and strategically important mobile Internet market and...
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Videcon May Buy Motorola's Handset Business
Videocon, a big consumer electronics business in India is talking to Motorola in an attempt to buy the handset business. Motorola said earlier that it wants to separate its handset business with an estimated value of $3.8 Billion....
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New Clearwire Gets Sprint's WiMAX, Sprint Gets 52%
Clearwire Corporation (and Sprint Nextel Corporation y announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company. The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be...
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Apple buys PA Semi for Super Chips?
Apple is buying the microprocessor company PA Semi for a approximately $278 million reports Forbes. PA Semi is known for low-power, sophisticated chipsets which could enhance iPhones and iPods....
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AT&T Completes Acquisition of Edge Wireless
AT&T announced that the company has completed, through a subsidiary, the acquisition of Edge Wireless. Edge is a provider of wireless communications services in Oregon, northern California, Idaho and Wyoming. AT&T says that addition of Edge’s wireless network will allow...
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AOL Acquires Sphere Source
AOL today announced that it has acquired Sphere Source, Inc., a leading provider of contextual-search tools which offers related content to publishers. Sphere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company’s Programming division, which...
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Microsoft Absorbs Danger Mobile Software Developer
Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced today. Danger’s expertise in building great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and...
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Yahoo Not Ready For Microsoft Takeover
Yahoo's Board of Directors sent a letter to Steve Ballmer informing Microsoft that although it not against a takeover, Yahoo it worth more than the price offered due improvements and that they want a deal that provides "certainty to our...
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Carl Icahn Wants to Know Why & Wherefore of Motorola Split
Gadfly activist investor Carl Icahn has a lot of questions about Motorola’s decision to split into two entities. yesterday, Icahn sent Motorola’s board a letter call the decision “much delayed and long overdue” and”step in the right direction.” However Icahn...
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Splitsville for Motorola Devices Divorced from Broadband Enterprise
Motorola announced that it will spilt into two separate public entities: one focused on broadband and enterprise, the other on mobile devices. ...
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MS Buys Rapt Digital Ad Management Solution
Microsoft Corp.announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of...
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Qualcomm Buys Mobile Personalization Provider, Xiam
Qualcomm Iannounced that it has acquired Xiam Technologies Limited an Ireland-based pioneer of wireless content targeting solutions. Xiam’s My Personal Offers System (MPOS) provides targeting and personalization technology that accelerates discovery and individualizes the user experience by presenting relevant content...
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Acer Acquires E-Ten
PC vendor, Acer Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire E-TEN Information Systems Co., Ltd.,designer and manufacturer of smart handheld devices.They expect the acquisition to close during Q3 2008. The acquisition of E-TEN is in line...
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Microsoft Acquires Danger for More Mobile Power/Services
Microsoft is buying cellphone smartphone software maker Danger, strengthening its position in the consumer mobile space. Danger is best know for providing the software and technology behind the SideKick.With the acquisition of Danger, Microsoft will benefit from the company’s...
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Motorola May Sell Mobile
Motorola may sell its mobile unit because of investor demand. It said it ismay “separate” its unprofitable mobile division. In a statement released yesterday the company stated it is: “exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better...
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Verizon Buys SureWest Assets in Sacramento
Verizon Wireless and SureWest Communications announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Verizon Wireless to purchase SureWest Communications’ wireless assets in northern California, operating as SureWest Wireless, for $69.0 million. The purchase includes SureWest Wireless’ spectrum licenses, and network...
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Sanyo Sells Mobile Phone Biz to Kyocera
SANYO announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Kyocera to transfer its mobile phone business to Kyocera for $467 Billion. The deal is expected to close April 1, 2008....
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Cricket Buys Hargray, Now in Savanah & Hilton Head
Cricket Communications, Inc.announced that it has signed an agreement with Hargray Communications Group, Inc. to acquire Hargray’s wireless telecommunications business and bring Cricket service to the Savannah, Ga. and Hilton Head, S.C. areas. Under the agreement, Cricket will acquire Hargray...
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Smith Micro Buys PCTEL's Mobility Group
Smith Micro Software, Inc. and PCTEL, Inc., a developer of wireless broadband solutions, announced a definitive asset purchase agreement for Smith Micro Software to acquire PCTEL’s Mobility Solutions Group (“MSG”) for $59.7 million, to be paid at closing of the...
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Dobson's Cellular One Stores Go AT&T
Beginning Sunday, Dec. 9, AT&T transitions Dobson’s Cellular One-branded stores to AT&T throughout former Dobson territory. AT&T Inc. announced that the first phase of integration will start Sunday by stocking store shelves with AT&T handsets and replacing Dobson’s Cellular One...
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AT&T Buys Edge Wireless
AT&T Inc. has announced that AT&T, through an affiliate, has entered into a definitive agreement with Edge Wireless Holding Company to acquire full ownership in Edge Wireless LLC (“Edge Wireless”), a regional wireless company with approximately 172,000 subscribers that operates...
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AT&T Acquiing PPC Advert Tech Ingenio
AT&T Inc. announced that an AT&T subsidiary has agreed to acquire privately held Ingenio, a leading provider of Pay Per Call technology. The transaction is expected to close in early January 2008. AT&T plans to integrate Ingenio’s Pay Per Call...
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Garmin Bids to Buy Tele Atlas
After the Nokia bought Navteq, Garmin and TomTom want Tele Atlas. Garmin is making a $3.32 billion bid for digital map maker Tele Atlas NV to outbid the $2.89 billion offer from rival TomTom. MarketWatch reported, “The battle for Tele...
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FCC Approves Alltel Aquisition
Alltel announced that the Federal Communications Commission has approved the company’s merger with TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners (GSCP). Alltel expects the merger to close before Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22. At close, Alltel shareholders will receive $71.50 per share...
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Motricity Acquires InfoSpace Mobile
Motricity, a leading provider of mobile content services and solutions, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the mobile services business unit of InfoSpace, Inc., a leading developer of mobile technologies and infrastructure services, for approximately $135...
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Sanyo Saying Sayonara to Mobile Phones, Selling to Kyocera
Sanyo is in the process of selling its mobile phone business unit to Kyocera. Kyocera has been granted priority negotiation rights. No price has been set yet, however, the Nikkei reported Kyocera offered ¥70 billion ($597 million)....
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Google Acquires Mobile Microblogging Service: Jaiku
Google is acquiring Finnish social mobile microblogging service, Jaiku. Tony Hsieh, Product Manager manager at Google said “We’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired Jaiku, a company that’s been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in...
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AT&T Says Aloha to New Spectrum for $2.5 Billion
AT&T Inc.announced its board of directors has approved an agreement to purchase spectrum licenses covering 196 million people in the 700 MHz frequency band from Aloha Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. The transaction enhances AT&T’s spectrum position by adding...
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Merging Minds: Air2Web & Mindmatics
U.S. mobile marketing company Air2Web and European mobile marketing services provider Mindmatics AG announced their mergerAir2Web and MindMatics claim the merger will result in "the world's largest, independent, pure-play mobile marketing agency." Frost & Sullivan estimates the value of worldwide...
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Nokia Acquiring NAVTEQ - Mapping Out LBS Future Together
Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced that Nokia will acquire NAVTEQ, aChicago-based digitalmapping company that licenses content to global positioning systems and Web sites."With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services(LBS) offering and bringtomarket the most innovative, context aware...
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Zingku Acquired by Google
Social networking service, Zingku that links mobile phones with a personalized website that allows users to zing things back and forth between the web and mobile, is being acquired by Google. All new subscriptions are frozen for now....
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Cisco Buys Spectrum Optimizer - Cognio
SAN JOSE, Calif. - September 18, 2007 - Cisco® today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Germantown, MD-based Cognio, Inc., the market leader in wireless spectrum analysis and management for wireless networks. Cognio's spectrum intelligence solution enables network managers to...
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T-Mobile Agrees to Acquire SunCom Wireless to Expand Network
T-Mobile USA, Inc. and SunCom Wireless Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:TPC) announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for the acquisition by T-Mobile USA of all of the outstanding shares of common stock of SunCom, for an...
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Nokia Acquires Enpocket for Gobal Mobile Ad Edge
Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Enpocket today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire Enpocket (www.enpocket.com). Enpocket is a global leader in mobile advertising; providing technology and services that allow brands to plan, create,...
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